Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-02
A WEALTHY TOWN.
san Bernardino City and Its Rich
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No city in Southern California has bet
ter prospects than San Bernardino for
growth and wealth. 1t has a solid basis
for prosperity and progress in its rich
soil, abundance of water and great crops
of grain. alfalfa, oranges, lines, lemons.
apples, apricots, pears, peaches, grapes.
fine wines, cheap lumber, lime, marble,
brick and granite, that surround the an
cient town on all sides.
The city proper is but mile square
and has fne public buildings of all
kinds. 1t is free from debt and the
people are increasing in wealth at rapid
rate. 1t is in fact a solid town fnan.
cially. 1t is hard place to buy mort.
cages at high rates of interest. 1t has
broad. straight streets eighty-two and
a.half feet wide, surrounding blocks 500
feet square, with an abundance of shade
trees and streams OF water from flowing
wells, an opera house, electric light, a
dummy railway to Cotton four miles
south on the Southern Pacific Railroad,
and street railway, with the Atchison,
town, at the junction of the Los Angeles
and San B.rnardino and the Riverside
and San Diego lines of railway. A new
road is planned to be built by the South
ern Pacific Company from Alhambra,
through Pasadena. Lamanda Park,
Santa Anita, Monrovia, Duarte, Azusa,
Alosta, Citrus, San Dimas, Pomona, On
tario and Cucamonga to this town, which
it will encircle around in the citrus and
vineyard belt that lies on the west,
north and east side of the city. This
line will pass through Highlands, Graf
ton, Lugonia, Redlands, Old San Ber-
nardino, probably near Brookside, to the
main line of the Southern Pacific Com.
pany as it starts up the San Gorgonio
Heights. Such a road would pass
through about seventy.tive miles of
citrus fruit land, of which half is already
planted in orchard and vineyard at the
present time.
Ii is needless to say that this fruit
belt railroad would give San Bernardino
a tremendous boom and double its pop
ulation in two years. San Bsrnardino
city and county has doubled in its in
habitants in the last three years, and is
likely to make the same progress in
the next three years.
The city has strong banks with ample
capital, lumber and brick yards with
ample supplies, half dozen hotels, in
Guiding the well.known Starke's, the
Southern, st. Charles and others, the
new hotel of the A., L. & S. F, ON the
west side of the city, and the great Ar
row Head Hot Springs hotel, six miles
north of the city, on the side of the
mountains about 2500 feet above sea
level. This famous hotel is open sum.
mer and winter The water from the
springs has temperature OF l9O'. and
affords natural steam bath at all times.
The water is carried in iron pipes direct
to and through the hotel, which it
warns and keeps at an even temperature
day and night, without aid from stoves
and furnaces.
The hotel is on the side of the loftier
peaks Of the Sierra Madre, and trail
leads to the top, IL, 200 feet high, from
which the view is rapturous. Perpet-
ual snow rests on the north side of these
peaks, while charming trout streams
gush out of the sunny side of their
rocky breasts.
Mud baths are given hot and thick,
and diseases of many kinds are rapidly |
cured under the treatment of steam
baths, hot baths, swimming baths,
Swedish treatment. and after these a
good square meal in the great hotel,
with its frontages of 300 feet in length.
The business blocks of the city are of
brick and mostly OF modern and excel
lent construction. Among them are the
Anderson, Ancker, Burt. Callihan,
Cochrane, Davis, Garner, Remission,
Hurts & Nee, Lehman, Masonic Hall,
Mcdonald, New Ruffen, Odd Fellows,
Sainsevain, Satterwhite & Curtis, South
ern Hotel, St.rke's Hotel, Suverkrup,
Van Dorm, Waters & Brnkmeyer and
the Wixom Book.
The largest bnilding in the city is aow
being erected on the corner of Third
and D streets. L is to be magnificent |
three story hotel and finished with ele.
gance and furnished with all modern
1t is being built by a
stock company aud is to cost 500, 600.
A new tine county hospital costing |
$40, 900 has recently been erected OF
brick on Third street. Building opera.
tions are very active on all sides and the
city is enjoying genuine boom.
The city has four daily papers, the
Courier, Times, Inder and Gazette, all
of which seem to be thriving. One of
the finest newspaper offices in the coun.
try is the new outfit of the Courier, and |
one of the most alive editors in the
State, Arthur Kearney, is running it
with his cultured and tireless energy.
Space will not permit more minute
description to-day of that most prosper.